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unusual facts about filly



Bella Paola

Bella Paola was a big, powerful brown filly, standing 16.3 hands high, bred by her owner François Dupré.

Big Spruce

That same year he also finished second to the U.S. Racing Hall of Fame filly, Dahlia in the Washington, D.C. International at Laurel Park in Maryland and in 1974, finished second to Dahlia again in the Canadian International.

Blind Luck

Blind Luck's connections opted to skip the Grade I Apple Blossom Handicap, which Havre de Grace subsequently won over California filly Switch.

Brighton Racecourse

Prominent racehorse owner, Sheikh Mohammed, had his first winner at Brighton racecourse on 20 June 1977 when his filly Hatta, trained by John Dunlop, won the £968 Bevendene Maiden Stakes.

Camarine

On the opening day she started odds-on favourite for a five furlong Sweepstakes and won from Lord Egremont's filly (later named Miss Petworth).

Charles Semblat

At Epsom in June he won both the Epsom Derby with Galcador and the Oaks with the filly Asmena (a sister of Marsyas, Caracalla and Arbar).

Clement L. Hirsch Stakes

The race is open to filles and mares, age three and up, willing to race one and one-sixteenth miles on Polytrack synthetic dirt.

Cox Plate

Surround became the first three-year-old filly to win the race in 1976, when she defeated the VRC Derby winner Unaware.

Doyoun

On his final appearance, Doyoun ran over ten furlongs in the Champion Stakes at Newmarket in October, and finished third to the filly Indian Skimmer, beaten seven lengths.

George M. Odom

During his career, George Odom operated a public stable whose clients over the years included Robert L. Gerry, Sr., Marshall Field III, and Hollywood film mogul Louis B. Mayer who owned Odom's most famous runner, Busher, a future Hall of Fame filly who was voted 1945 American Horse of the Year honors.

Jenny Wiley

An event for fillies and mares, the race is called the Jenny Wiley Stakes and attracts some of the best female horses in American horse racing.

John Oxx

In 1995 he trained Ridgewood Pearl, bred and owned by Sean and Anne Coughlan, to victories in the Irish 1,000 Guineas, the Coronation Stakes at Royal Ascot, the Prix du Moulin at Longchamp, and the Breeders' Cup Mile at Belmont Park, in America, meaning that the filly had six wins from eight races and that she had won Group One races in four different countries in the same season.

Jonathan E. Sheppard

In both venues, he has had a long working relationship with stable owner, George W. Strawbridge, Jr. and in 2008 he conditioned Strawbridge's filly Forever Together to victory in the Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf.

Lyphard

There, his offspring included the filly Durtal (b. 1974), who won the Cheveley Park Stakes and was the 1976 United Kingdom Champion 2-Year-Old Filly, plus the colt Pharly (1974-2002), who won several important races in France, including the Group One Prix de la Forêt, Prix Lupin and Prix du Moulin de Longchamp.

Muriel Vanderbilt

Bred and trained at her Ocala farm in 1970, Desert Vixen was the most famous horse she ever owned and bred and in 1979 the filly was inducted into the United States' National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame.

Pianissima

2004 - Polish Spring Champion Filly Polish Spring Show, Best in Show Polish Spring Show, Falborek Show Champion Filly, Best in Show Falborek Arabian Show, Polish National Champion Filly, Best in Show Polish National Show, ANC Champion Filly All Nations Cup - Aachen, European Champion Filly, World Champion Filly, winner of the Arabian Triple Crown, junior (The Arabian triple Crown consists of being Champion at Aachen, European, World)

Process Shot

Her owner, Sonny Werblin of Elberon Farms (who also owned the New York Jets), and trainer J. Bowes Bond decided to run Process Shot in the defacto second jewel of the filly triple crown, the $40,000 Black-Eyed Susan Stakes at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland on May 16, 1969.

Purple Violet Stakes

Open to three-year-old fillies registered in the State of Illinois, the non-graded stakes is contested at a distance of one mile (8 furlongs) on Polytrack synthetic dirt.

Rachel Alexandra

(Prior to the advent of the Eclipse Awards, there were comparable awards known as the Horse of the Year, in which there were three other 3 year old filly winners (Busher, Twilight Tear, Regret, Beldame), and one 2 year old filly (Moccasin).

Reedley Hallows

Reedley Hallows is the eastern side of Pendle Water, while New Laund Booth is to the north-west and Filly Close to the south-west.

Sahpresa

McIntyre sent his filly to France to be trained by Rodolphe "Rod" Collet at Lamorlaye.

Son of Love

In the French Free Handicap, a ranking of the best two-year-olds to race in France, he was rated thirteen pounds behind the colt Irish River and the filly Sigy.

Tampa Bay Downs

Another Hall of Fame trainer, William Mott, selected Tampa Bay Downs for the first 2011 starts for his 3-year-old filly Royal Delta and 4-year-old colt Drosselmeyer.

The Fugue

The Fugue is a dark bay or brown filly with a white star and stripe and white socks on her hind legs bred by her owner, Andrew Lloyd Webber's Watership Down stud.

Yolanda Pérez

She is sometimes known by the stage name "La Potranquita", (Spanish: "little filly"), a name taken by her father from his home city of Zacatecas, Mexico.


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